The Cost of Purchasing Patent Rights for a Product That

question 82

Multiple Choice

The cost of purchasing patent rights for a product that might otherwise have seriously competed with one of the purchaser's patented products should be

• A)charged off in the current period.
• B)amortized over the legal life of the purchased patent.
• C)added to factory overhead and allocated to production of the purchaser's product.
• D)amortized over the remaining estimated life of the original patent covering the product whose market would have been impaired by competition from the newly patented product.

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